The Young Desire It

✍ Scribed by Mackenzie, Kenneth

• Book ID: 107779887
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 236 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781922147509

✦ Synopsis

A masterful and vivid portrayal of a young boy's awakening to true love in the sensual landscape of Western Australia. Winner of the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal for best novel, 1939.

Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins.

Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim, The Young Desire It is a stunning debut novel about coming of age: an intimate and lyrical account of first love, and a rich evocation of rural Western Australia. This edition includes a new introduction by David Malouf.

Kenneth Mackenzie was born in 1913 in South Perth. His parents divorced in 1919, and thereafter he lived with his mother and maternal grandfather. Unhappy years boarding at...